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conulyI have this project due tomorrow. I had been planning to do a tape of people speaking and come up with results (it's for sociolinguistics) but the tape is impossible to hear for most of it. So I'm doing the OTHER project, which I had originally decided not to do because I didn't have enough people. Basically, I'm going to get a few results and extrapolate from them, instead of doing what I was supposed to do which is give the survey to two groups of 10 people each, which are alike in all respects except one. PLEASE help!
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Edit: Unless this affected your answers, don't worry about it. Just a clarification: AAVE is *not* supposed to be taken to mean slang. I lost the explanation we were supposed to give, which is just as well as I really thought that explanation was biased towards AAVE anyway. I mean, so am I, but that didn't seem fair. Anyway, AAVE is supposed to be considered as a dialect such as RP english or Brooklyn english, not as slang.
Non-americans, unless you know a lot about the subject (or think you can guess based on your knowledge of nonprestigious dialects where you are), don't answer. I'm locking this so that I can't be called out for rushing the assignment.
[Poll #360503]
Edit: Unless this affected your answers, don't worry about it. Just a clarification: AAVE is *not* supposed to be taken to mean slang. I lost the explanation we were supposed to give, which is just as well as I really thought that explanation was biased towards AAVE anyway. I mean, so am I, but that didn't seem fair. Anyway, AAVE is supposed to be considered as a dialect such as RP english or Brooklyn english, not as slang.
Non-americans, unless you know a lot about the subject (or think you can guess based on your knowledge of nonprestigious dialects where you are), don't answer. I'm locking this so that I can't be called out for rushing the assignment.
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Date: 2004-10-03 06:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-03 06:51 pm (UTC)1) Proper grammar is actually much more expressive than most people realize, mostly because most people don't utilize proper grammar.
2) There are cases when the purposeful misuse of language can be *very* expressive. However, no one can realize this unless they know what the proper method is. Rule-breaking means absolutely nothing unless people are aware of the rules. It's like being weird relative to the norm. If everyone used "mihi" for "to me" or "for me," it would cease being a sign of uniqueness. In the same way, if everyone is ignoring grammatical rules, rule-breaking ceases being expressive (and just becomes annoying :-P).